You have to go back 16 years to find a year when the market did not have a negative quarter during the calendar year.  In 2013 more money was unearned, sitting in cash waiting for the impending correction that everyone...

So does the burden of economic growth sit on the shoulders of monetary policy? It certainly seems like it does. Our government seems to believe that our economy is too weak to stop borrowing from the future to pay for...

So it looks like the straight up to the moon market was a one quarter phenomenon. As I mentioned in last quarter’s report this could not continue. Major stock market averages have been on a roller coaster ride since Federal...

Exactly like the first quarter of 2012, the stock market took off in January and did not look back. This quarter, the Dow Jones average was not even negative for two consecutive days. A parabolic move in both the Dow...

What a quarter – an incumbent reelected, a major tropical storm or hurricane, a Federal Reserve announcement vowing to keep interest rates at historic low levels until the unemployment rate is less than 6.50 percent, AAPL stock falling 200 dollars...

So with three quarters in the books for 2012, where do we go from here?  The first quarter of the year, the market went essentially straight up with very few pull backs.  During the 2nd quarter, the usual post-financial crisis...

How things change so quickly, or do we simply choose to forget? In either case the 2nd quarter of 2012 was almost a mirror opposite of the first quarter of 2012. High volatility, a sharply negative performance quarter, European debt...

To say that this was a good quarter in the stock market would be an understatement. The market started the new year with a strong upward move during the month of January and did not correct the entire quarter. Both...

2011 was a very volatile and disappointing year for the US stock market. What’s notable is that most other world markets, with the exception of a few small ones, were down substantially more for the year. Entering 2011, expectations were...

I think it is highly unlikely that the United States Government would let the state of Rhode Island go under or default on its obligations; even more so now in this economic climate after seeing the effects of the Lehman...